Amy Winehouse had quite the night at the 50th GRAMMY Awards. The 2008 ceremony marked the first at which the late singer was nominated. She walked away winning five of the six awards that she was up for.
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Ahead of the 2025 GRAMMYs on Feb. 2, video of Winehouse’s Record of the Year win for “Rehab” resurfaced. For the 2008 ceremony, Winehouse wasn’t present in Los Angeles. Rather, she performed and watched the show from London.
After the presenters announced Winehouse as the winner in the Record of the Year category, she appeared genuinely stunned. Winehouse froze for multiple seconds, before she turned around to hug her band. She cried as she hugged the band members, all of whom were excitedly cheering for her.
Before delivering her acceptance speech, Winehouse went over to her mother, Janis Winehouse, to hug her as well. As the London crowd chanted her name, Winehouse whispered in her mom’s ear and took in the moment.
“Uh,” Winehouse began her speech, earning laughs from the crowd. She went on to thank her record label, publishing house, team, parents, and more, before declaring, “This is for London!”
During the 2008 ceremony, “Rehab” also won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Song of the Year. Winehouse, who was named Best New Artist, won the Best Pop Vocal Album for Back to Black. Her release lost in the Album of the Year category to Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters.
Amy Winehouse’s Posthumous GRAMMY Win
Winehouse won one more GRAMMY, but it happened posthumously. Winehouse died on July 23, 2011 at age 27.
At the 54th GRAMMY Awards, which were held in February 2012, Winehouse and Tony Bennett’s “Body and Soul” won the trophy for Pop Duo/Group Performance.
Bennett accepted the award alongside Winehouse’s parents.
“We shouldn’t be here. Our darling daughter should be here. But these are the cards that were dealt,” Winehouse’s father, Mitch Winehouse, told the crowd, before opening up about the charity he and his wife started in their daughter’s honor.
While Winehouse and Nas’ track “Cherry Wine” was nominated the following year in the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category, it lost to Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild,” which featured Frank Ocean and The-Dream.
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